While tinkering with Ruby 1.9 in TextMate I found that Ruby was segfaulting on the TextMate Ruby Bundle output screen. /Users/codethought/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/RubyMate/catch_exception.rb:16: [BUG] Segmentation...

I’m sure you’ve probably seen this question in your programming classes.. I decided I wanted to play with Ruby again and was remind of this problem, so thought it might be fun as a simple exercise to do this in Ruby. The problem is to take a long integer...

While I was getting some old Ruby code of mine out to convert ruby code to pretty HTML-formatted code suitable for blogging from Wolfman’s Howlings I got the following error: $ ./ruby2html.rb ./ruby2html.rb: line 9: require: command not found ./ruby2html.rb:...

While I was playing with Rails 2.1 I decided to try the SQLite3 support that comes built into OS X instead of using MySQL. Upon trying to run a migrate command via rake I was created with: rake aborted! no such file to load -- sqlite3/database After some digging...

I don’t know why this isn’t better documented or stated anywhere so I’ll just iterate it here. If you want to peruse the documentation for Rails and your installed Gems type the following gem server And in your terminal prompt you should see Starting...

Mongrel Developer/Creator, Zed Shaw, cut loose on the Ruby and Rails communities in a recent posting to his website. He gives some interesting insights into who the major players are, and cuts through some of the hype surrounding rails. While caustic in his delivery,...